History will be scripted when a Pakistan Joint Investigation Team arrives in India on Sunday, March 27, to investigate the Pathankot terror attack, which, according to India, was choreographed by the Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed ” s leadership.
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The Modi government has already invested enormously in improving relations with Pakistan, so much so that it determined that denying the Pakistani JIT access to the Pathankot base would be a retrograde effort.
India is understood to be planning to provide the probe team access to witnesses, barring security personnel from the National Security Guard or the Border Security Force.
Where it will obtain a comprehensive display on NIA’s probe the crew can occur in Delhi with a special airplane at 11am.
India has shared evidence and conveyed to Pakistan that Jaish chief Masood Azhar was the main conspirator and perpetrator behind the attack.
It is for the first time that Pakistani investigators are travelling to neighboring country of India to investigate a terror attack.
Official sources said on the eve of the JIT’s arrival, India will also press for the visit of its probe team to Pakistan to carry out investigations. Seven security personnel were killed, while four bodies of terrorists belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammed were recovered.
Sources said the NIA will share those details of their probe into the attack with the Pakistani team in their meeting on Monday.
The team comprises Punjab counter-terrorism department inspector-general Muhammed Tahir Rai; Lahore deputy director-general of intelligence Mohammad Azim Arshad; ISI’s Lt Col Tanvir Ahmed; Pakistan Army intelligence officer Lt Col Irfan Mirza; and investigating officer Shahid Tanveer of Gujranwala police station.
They were abducted by the terrorists on the intervening night of December 31 and January 1 before they entered into IAF base. The briefing which will incorporate a 90-second presentation to the investigations taken in case so far, a source said. Nasir was the one who had called his mother Baber in Bhawalpur using the phone snatched from the jeweller friend of Punjab Police SP Salwinder Singh.
It’ll cooperate inside the probe provided Pakistan reciprocates although India has managed to get clear.
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India postponed scheduled talks on Kashmir and other issues with Pakistan after the attack while it evaluated actions taken by Islamabad against insurgents. There is a strong possibility that Jadhav, who operated a cargo business in Iran, had been lured into Pakistani territorial waters and then arrested, said sources.
